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Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Carbon Commons: Design Practice for a Post-Growth Society” is an exceptional new PhD dissertation by Dr. Riel Bessai. A joy and honour to serve as external examiner and participate in the defense at TUDelft with supervisors Ruud Balkenende and Roy Bendor repository.tudelft.nl/record/uuid:...

Best AI tool yet airesistlist.org

Transition Templates project is now online… Transition Templates offers a structured participatory mapping process for "pathways to net zero+". The method supports groups working towards collaborative responses to climate breakdown and wider socioecological transitions. eco-labs.co

Hello! We're just setting up the Design and Economics Bluesky account. In the meantime take a look at our upcoming conference, bridging ideas, conversations and methodologies around the intersection of #design and #economics. Please share. lu.ma/57r6fjso

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Tragi-comic. Live feed reporting the parents' statement under the heading 'please get the truth out', the BBC edits out part of the statement, and repeats a government lie. This post even fails to clear the 'he said she said' bar, as it uses politics to edit out what is being said.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

The reason why many Democrats didn't want to endorse Mamdani A. They have a bigotry against a Muslim candidate like him and B. He gives straight-forward answers about topics like ICE or income inequality with moral clarity, which makes their cowardice even more glaring.

Extraordinary polling from @yougov.co.uk today, showing the @greenparty.org.uk in first place across all working age people 🟢Grn - 20.5% 🔴Lab - 20.3% ⚫Ref - 20.1% 🔵Con - 15.5% baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners

I came to Congress to do the job: to work for people and protect them. Now I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to this administration and to ICE. But if they think I’ll back down, they are wrong. Read more:

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

I’m going to basically spend all morning laughing like a maniac. I have BEEN saying! Rebuilding civic infrastructure is EVERYTHING.

Last week, we launched the world's ultimate guide to climate solutions -- the Drawdown Explorer. People thought we were nuts to give it (and all the underlying data) away for free. But we insisted. During a crisis, you don't put crucial data behind a paywall.

✅ Worked against AI.

It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Red line. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Director of European Transport Safety Council: "Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated US pick-up trucks and SUVs – heavier, more dangerous to other car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and completely out of step with Europe’s vision for safer, more sustainable mobility.”

Europe and Canada, please team up and declare war on Silicon Valley 🙏

Google's claim that each AI prompt uses the energy of 9 seconds of television is like throwing dispersant over an oil slick. The only way to get a number that low is with massive scale, which you should definitely worry about. medium.com/@dnafus/why-...

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final. And it needs all of your data to do it. In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

“Meta means for Hyperion to dominate the landscape, culturally, economically + metaphorically. The use of a literal landscape to convey this message is no accident, and specifically NYC — far from where the demand for energy to fuel AI is remaking whole communities — is pointed.”

It’s pretty simple: - AI is driving electricity demand up - The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built - When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.

Concerns about the far right should also be concerns about mainstream politicians and media as they have played a key part in making the far right the threat it is today despite pretending to be bulwarks You can't defeat the far right without changing a system that uses it as a distraction

This is why everything is "software as a service" now: you can lock you customers in on long term contracts billed per seat, rather than having to make a good product that people like to use

Not just Canada: "In other words, if the United States were to issue a legal request to Microsoft for the data of a French citizen hosted in the EU, Microsoft would comply regardless of French or EU law."

So the AI bubble was all just a hallucination, but it turns out it was the humans hallucinating, not the robots... 😬 www.latimes.com/business/sto...

GPTesus take the wheel

All historians should read this jaw dropping interview as a case study in moral and political decrepitude. Evidence if any more were needed that the accrual of massive amounts of evidence about the past does not automatically engender a critical reflection on the present.

I mean, they are singing from the same sheet of music in a way - shareholders. If the big whale shareholders have decided LLMs are over, CEOs will change their tune very quickly.

My contention about a hot civil war is that we have been living in one for decades at this point, I would say since 1982, but very slow moving. What do you think all those mass shootings are actually about? Look who is mostly perpetuating them (white males) and what they target (public institutions)

I’m so sorry 😞 I wonder if collective resources like this could be any help? against-a-i.com

AI slop steals from human artists and writers to enrich the billionaires that fund fascism. You will not defeat fascism by posting pictures made on the fascist billionaires' energy and water guzzling plagiarism extruder.

“energy and water guzzling plagiarism extruder” I like that definition a lot.

Just think - if one million people turned off their wifi for one hour it would save enough electricity to run one ChatGPT data center for ten seconds

Monkey vs Robot youtu.be/k1Csif5l_6c?...

Kamala Harris should absolutely not be allowed to talk about broken political systems as if she was not recently one of the most powerful ppl win the world.

American fascism emerges from a context where the most powerful people in America don’t care enough about democracy to fight for it.

This is what happens when a coup succeeds. They didn’t need to win on the day itself. The leaders knew that the system was fragile & cowardly enough to never truly hold them all accountable. All they needed was to fight from within the system itself. Just like a famous past failed coup leader.

Part of the reason that so many of us are spinning our wheels trying to figure out how to beat fascism and coming up empty is that the nature of fascism has evolved drastically. To beat it, we need to keep up. My latest. It is very long. Because this is the most important piece I've ever written.

"But besides that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

It's easy to assume that anything you can buy in a shop, find in your house or apply to your body must be safe Because they wouldn't be allowed to sell it if it wasn't, right? I mean, someone must have tested it, right? Wrong

I support Palestine Action in its judicial review of the government's ban.